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Author:   Victor Katz
Publisher:   Pearson Education Limited
Imprint:   Pearson Education Limited
Edition:   3rd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 19.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.658kg
ISBN:  

9781292027784

ISBN 10:   1292027789
Pages:   948
Publication Date:   08 November 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I. Ancient Mathematics   1. Egypt and Mesopotamia 1.1 Egypt 1.2 Mesopotamia   2. The Beginnings of Mathematics in Greece 2.1 The Earliest Greek Mathematics 2.2 The Time of Plato 2.3 Aristotle   3. Euclid 3.1 Introduction to the Elements 3.2 Book I and the Pythagorean Theorem 3.3 Book II and Geometric Algebra 3.4 Circles and the Pentagon 3.5 Ratio and Proportion 3.6 Number Theory 3.7 Irrational Magnitudes 3.8 Solid Geometry and the Method of Exhaustion 3.9 Euclid’s Data   4. Archimedes and Apollonius 4.1 Archimedes and Physics 4.2 Archimedes and Numerical Calculations 4.3 Archimedes and Geometry 4.4 Conic Sections Before Apollonius 4.5 The Conics of Apollonius   5. Mathematical Methods in Hellenistic Times 5.1 Astronomy Before Ptolemy 5.2 Ptolemy and The Almagest 5.3 Practical Mathematics   6. The Final Chapter of Greek Mathematics 6.1 Nichomachus and Elementary Number Theory 6.2 Diophantus and Greek Algebra 6.3 Pappus and Analysis   Part II. Medieval Mathematics   7. Ancient and Medieval China 7.1 Introduction to Mathematics in China 7.2 Calculations 7.3 Geometry 7.4 Solving Equations 7.5 Indeterminate Analysis 7.6 Transmission to and from China   8. Ancient and Medieval India 8.1 Introduction to Mathematics in India 8.2 Calculations 8.3 Geometry 8.4 Equation Solving 8.5 Indeterminate Analysis 8.6 Combinatorics 8.7 Trigonometry 8.8 Transmission to and from India   9. The Mathematics of Islam 9.1 Introduction to Mathematics in Islam 9.2 Decimal Arithmetic 9.3 Algebra 9.4 Combinatorics 9.5 Geometry 9.6 Trigonometry 9.7 Transmission of Islamic Mathematics   10. Medieval Europe 10.1 Introduction to the Mathematics of Medieval Europe 10.2 Geometry and Trigonometry 10.3 Combinatorics 10.4 Medieval Algebra 10.5 The Mathematics of Kinematics   11. Mathematics Elsewhere 11.1 Mathematics at the Turn of the Fourteenth Century 11.2 Mathematics in America, Africa, and the Pacific   Part III. Early Modern Mathematics   12. Algebra in the Renaissance 12.1 The Italian Abacists 12.2 Algebra in France, Germany, England, and Portugal 12.3 The Solution of the Cubic Equation 12.4 Viete, Algebraic Symbolism, and Analysis 12.5 Simon Stevin and Decimal Analysis   13. Mathematical Methods in the Renaissance 13.1 Perspective 13.2 Navigation and Geography 13.3 Astronomy and Trigonometry 13.4 Logarithms 13.5 Kinematics   14. Geometry, Algebra and Probability in the Seventeenth Century 14.1 The Theory of Equations 14.2 Analytic Geometry 14.3 Elementary Probability 14.4 Number Theory 14.5 Projective Geometry   15. The Beginnings of Calculus 15.1 Tangents and Extrema 15.2 Areas and Volumes 15.3 Rectification of Curves and the Fundamental Theorem   16. Newton and Leibniz 16.1 Isaac Newton 16.2 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 16.3 First Calculus Texts   Part IV. Modern Mathematics   17. Analysis in the Eighteenth Century 17.1 Differential Equations 17.2 The Calculus of Several Variables 17.3 Calculus Texts 17.4 The Foundations of Calculus   18. Probability and Statistics in

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